The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-26
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The death of Prof o. S. Fowler, the
noted phrenologist and lecturer, oc-
Cured on the 18th at his residence near
Sharon Station, Conn, after short ILL.,
ness. He was seventy-eight years old.
PROF. SPENCER F. BAIRD, president of
the United States Fish Commission, expired
on the 18th at Woods Holl, Mass, aged
sixty-four years
The lead ng firms in various branches of
trade in New York City on the 10Th report
ed that general business was in very sat
isfactory condition.
THE death of Alvan Clark, the famous
astronomer and telescope builder oc-
CURED at Cambridge. Mass, ON the 10Th,
in his eighty-four year.
+. A WHITE, cashier of the Putnam
County Bank at Carmel, n Y, was on the
10Th thought to be defaulter for $25, OO0
THE United Labor party at their conyen-
ton held on the 10Th at Syracuse, N Y,
nominated Henry George for Secretary of
State and a full State ticket. The split in
the Socialistic party appeared to be final,
and the anti-Georga people were getting
up new party.
THE steamer Atlas co!lided with and
sunk the schooner Lizzie Wilson, of Barne-
gat n. j., on the 10TH and the wife and
daughter of the captain AMI two seamen
were drowned.
The tenth annual session Of the Ameri-
can Bar Association closed at Saratoga
N. Y, on the 10th. George G. Wright, of
Iowa, was elected President
THE Maine fishermen on the 10Th sgni-
fed their approval of the course pursued
by Admiral Luce, of the North Atlantic
squadron, for which he was censured by
Secretary Whitney.
AT Connellsville, Pa, three hundred
! coke-workers struck on the 10Th against a
decline in wages. There were nearly four
thousand men idle in the Pennsylvania
coke region.
CHARLES HAIGHT, of Hammondsport, N
Y, killed mself and wife on the 18th. A
baby few months old is left to strangers.
The dead bodies of Mrs. Malinda r. w.
Paine, aged sixty years and her daughter
Anna, aged thirty five years, were discov-
cred in their rooms in New York tene-
ment house on the Goth in badly decom-
posed condition, which would indicate they
had been dead nearly week. They had
committed suicide beng fearful of becem-
ing insane
WHILE surf-bathlng DIR. N A. Archer,
professor of hygiene in the University
of Pennsy lvania, was drowned at At
lantic City, N j.. on the 21st
WITH the winnings of the week ended
on the Goth the record of the base ball
clubs in the National League was as
follows: Detroit (games won), 50; Chi
cago, 81; New York, 40; Philadelphia, 49,;
Boston, AZ; Pittsburgh, SO; Washington,
"a; Indianapolis, ~.
WHILE attempting to cross the track in
front of train Mrs. F. A. Andrews and
Mrs. Smith were killed on the goth at Ter
ryville, Conn.
WILLIAM BYERs, aged nineteen years,
shot and killed his father .ar Indiana,
Pa, on the Goth during dispute about
some farm work.
THEODORE MAUKE, aged thirty eight
yea s, in quarrel with his wife at Boston
on the s0th shot and fatally wounded her
and then committed suicide
A oCIAMATIoN was issued by Governor
Beaver, OF Pennsylvania on the 22d, COM
mending the approaching celebration of
the centennial Of the signing of the Federal
constitution at Philadelphia to the favor of
the public.
IT was asserted by the Philadelphia
Press on the 22l that the old "Kuow- NJ 9TH
ing'' or 'Native Americana party has
been reslrrected, and predicts that it will
be an important factor in next year. S
Presidential contest
AT Glen Lyon, Pa, in an attempt on the
Dist to put stop to tbs Dissertation of the
Sabbath by miuers, some three hundred
miners and citizens engaged in a street
fight, during which over sixty persons
were injured, some fatllly.s